Who plays the guitar solo on night by night?

1. Night By Night (Jeff Baxter): Hard to believe that Skunk could top his memorable lead on “Rikki” but he managed to do just that one song later on Pretzel Logic.
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Who played guitar on Midnight Cruiser?

# 26 – MIDNIGHT CRUISER. “Midnight Cruiser,” features drummer Jim Hodder on lead vocals and Denny Dias on guitar.
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Who played guitar solo on Steely Dan FM?

It was built up from a click track. Fagen played piano, and Becker handled all the bass and guitar work, including the solo on the song's outro. This was the only time on a Steely Dan song where the two performed most of the instrumental work.
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Who played the guitar solo on Aja?

Recording. The album was produced by Steely Dan's longtime producer Gary Katz and features several leading session musicians. The eight-minute-long title track features a jazz-based chord progression and a solo by saxophonist Wayne Shorter.
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Who plays lead guitar on Haitian Divorce?

In "Haitian Divorce," hired hand Dean Parks played the guitar, Walter Becker processed it though a talkbox to his specifications.
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Who played the guitar solo on Kid Charlemagne?

“Kid Charlemagne” features the guitar solo of legendary session player Larry Carlton, who also appeared on Steely Dan's Gaucho and Aja albums. Carlton's solo on “Kid Charlemagne” has been called one of the most memorable in rock.
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Who played guitar solo on Reeling in the Years?

The guitar solo on the original recorded version, by session player Elliott Randall, was recorded in one take. It has reportedly been rated by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page as his favorite solo of all time, and he scored it 12/10.
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Who plays guitar solo on Pretzel Logic?

Scoppa credited Jeff Baxter for this, although according to Steely Dan biographer Brian Sweet, Walter Becker played the guitar solo. This is one of the first Steely Dan songs to feature Becker as a lead guitarist.
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Who played the guitar solo on Bodhisattva?

"Dias" is Denny Dias, who played the first guitar solo on the track; "Baxter the skunk" is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who played the second solo.
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Who played lead guitar on my old school Steely Dan?

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, "My Old School"

The guitar solo on this track is one of Jeff Baxter's crowning achievements during his stint in Steely Dan.
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Who played guitar with Joni Mitchell?

From 1979 until the mid-'80s, she performed with five George Benson model Ibanez guitars, which were set up by Joel Bernstein and Larry Cragg with a range of string gauges to accommodate her tunings.
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Who played the guitar solo on Rikki don't lose that number?

The song features Jim Gordon on drums, as does the bulk of the Pretzel Logic album. The guitar solo is by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter who would soon go on to join The Doobie Brothers.
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Who played guitar on Steely Dan dont take me alive?

The three standout elements of this track – from Steely Dan's fifth album The Royal Scam – are the fluid guitar (played by Larry Carlton), the infectious groove, and the dark lyrics, somewhat at odds with the upbeat mood of the music.
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Who played lead guitar on Steely Dan Josie?

Steely Dan biographer Brian Sweet particularly praised his solo, calling it "a real stormer." Fagen sings the lead vocals. The other musicians on the song include Chuck Rainey on bass guitar, Victor Feldman on electric piano and Larry Carlton and Dean Parks on guitar.
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Did Steve Gadd play on Aja?

Gadd played drums on the title track of Steely Dan's 1977 jazz-rock album Aja; the drum solo he played at the end of the song has become "the stuff of legend", according to a 2019 Jazziz article, with its "explosive tom-tom runs and crisp cymbal grooves".
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Who played guitar solos on Steely Dan songs?

Steely Dan fanatics John Lawler, Preston Frazier and S. Victor Aaron select the five Steely Dan guitar solos that get them reacting like Fagen did upon first hearing one of these selections (read on to find out which one got him so excited).
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Who played guitar on Steely Dan albums?

Striving for perfection, Becker and Fagen sometimes asked musicians to record as many as forty takes of each track. Pretzel Logic was the first Steely Dan album to feature Walter Becker on guitar.
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Who is the top 50 guitarist of all time?

  • Michael Schenker. Mike McReady (Pearl Jam): "It's really hard to pick just one guitarist.
  • George Harrison. Elliot Easton (The Cars): "To me, George Harrison is the one. ...
  • Malcolm Young. ...
  • Paul Gilbert. ...
  • Tom Morello. ...
  • Robin Trower. ...
  • Peter Green. ...
  • Steve Morse. ...
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What is Jimmy Page's favorite guitar?

But early the next year, Page bought the Les Paul Standard—his first—from Joe Walsh, paying $500 for it. He used it to record Zeppelin II that May. The guitar became and remained his favorite guitar throughout his years with Zeppelin, and as he acquired others he started referring to it as Number 1.
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Did Jimmy Page ever play a Strat?

A Jimmy Page-played 1971 Fender Stratocaster is going under the hammer. Jimmy Page's name is associated with a number of electric guitars, from his iconic Gibson EDS-1275 double-neck to the equally intriguing Fender Dragon Telecaster.
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How Much Does Jimmy Page's guitar cost?

The first Gibson Jimmy Page Signature Les Paul guitar from Gibson Guitar Corp.'s Custom, Art & Historic Division has been sold for a reported $55,000 to an anonymous buyer. The figure, more than double its suggested list price, is a record for a new, first-run Gibson guitar.
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Who does Jimmy Page think is the best guitarist?

Page called Hendrix 'the best any of us ever had'

So did Amos Garrett, Elliot Randall, and Les Paul. But Page started out mentioning the man who'd ended his run on earth some five years earlier. “Well, we've lost the best guitarist any of us ever had and that was Hendrix,” he said.
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